Back on the train for afternoon tea, slices of cake are misted, tableside, from an atomizer of Bourgoin cognac. She wrote them as serious discussions of human behaviour and human nature. There’s barely a glimpse of the scenery before cocktail hour sampling of The Valet, a concoction inspired by Christie’s plot.Throughout the day we chatted with James Prichard, Christie’s great-grandson and the executive chairman and CEO of Agatha Christie Ltd, the company formed to manage the literary and media rights to her work since 1955. I think perhaps there were four things which, more than anything else endeared her to me. In short, she was an exciting person to be with because she always tried to look on the good side of things and people; she always found something to enthuse about.When I had the pleasure of taking my own children, aged twelve and eleven, to The Mousetrap for the first time they enjoyed it tremendously, and crossed off assiduously in their programmes those whom they thought couldn’t have done it (the real culprit was excluded at an early stage!). In 2020, James Prichard was the company's chairman.

When Poirot bumps into Michelle Pfeiffer’s Mrs. Hubbard, he offers profuse apologies. In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets. Our day begins as many beloved Agatha Christie plots do with—what else —the discovery of a body. A group of scientists once devised an algorithm to analyse Christie’s works in an attempt to see whether it could guess the murderer, I’m not sure we’ll fare much better but the prize for correct deduction is a set of retro Streamliner suitcases.As we boarded before dawn the Gare de l’Est was empty but for a few pigeons on the platform lined in red carpet, but even in the dark the brass letters on the iconic cream and blue Orient Express cars gleamed.In its heyday the Orient Express departed twice a week from this station, though it was not a a single train but a route.

It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.” We are in a cultural moment where there’s an appetite for Christie’s more psychological novels and domestic noir. It’s wonderful.”So is mealtime — luxury train travel is decadent, and a noble Judi Dench’s Princess Dragomiroff would have worn a different memorable outfit for each occasion.Even if we wanted to, there’s no time for costume changes. It is also a mistake to think of her generosity only in terms of money. You will love it!” is what director of Compagnie internationale des Wagons-Lits Bouc (Tom Bateman) promises Kenneth Branagh’s moustachioed Belgian detective.Today, however, I am in Paris on board the real Orient Express on behalf of Zoomer, socializing and dining in the historic ‘Anatole’ car as we wend our way from Paris to the Champagne region. She is pictured playing aged eight.

It’s sliced by Richard Arnold, who quips, “Given the quality of the tea we’ve been served on the train, we could certainly all be driven to murder.” The sound of the train and its wheels of justice speeding to Paris are muffled by our peals of laugher. But he’s not wrong. Outside the house a cat’s cradle of paths led down through the extensively wooded grounds, paths that like her plots never seemed to be getting anywhere until the final twist. His confidence in it never wavered and its longevity is as much a tribute to his great partnership with my grandmother as to anything else.It is inevitable perhaps that my own impressions of my grandmother are rather personal ones. I think it tells us something about the success of the play, too: it contains so much for everybody – humour, drama, suspense and a jigsaw puzzle – suitable for all ages and taste; regrettably not too many plays on the London scene can say the same, and I sometimes feel that actors and actresses, anxious like everybody else for employment, must wish that there were more plays with universal appeal like this.My grandmother died in January 1976.

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